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COVID-19 Airborne Transmission Estimator
source:University of Colorado-Boulder 2020-07-20 [Research]
Developed by: Prof. Jose L Jimenez, Dept. of Chem. and CIRES, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder Shortcut: https://tinyurl.com/covid-estimator Short descriptions of this tool: https://cires.colorado.edu/news/covid-19-airborne-transmission-tool-available https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1283868965849059328 Using input or feedback from: Linsey Marr, Shelly Miller, Giorgio Buonnano, Lidia Morawska, Don Milton, Julian Tang, Jarek Kurnitski, Xavier Querol, Matthew McQueen, Charles Stanier, Joel Eaves, Alfred Trukenmueller, Ty Newell, Greg Blonder, Andrew Maynard, Nathan Skinner, Clark Vangilder, Roger Olsen Prasad Kasibhatla, Joe Bruce, Paul Dabisch (only listing the most important here, many others have contributed feedback as well over email and Twitter. Thanks a lot to everyone!) (Any mistakes are my own) Version & date 3.1.4 18-Jul-20

What we are trying to estimate
The propagation of COVID-19 by airborne transmission ONLY
The model is based on a standard model of airborne disease transmission, the Wells-Riley model. It is calibrated to COVID-19 per recent literature on quanta emission rate
This is NOT an epidemiological model, rather it takes input from such models for the average rate of infection for a given location and time period
This model does NOT include droplet or contact / fomite transmission, and assumes that 6 ft / 2 m social distancing is respected. Otherwise higher transmission will result
This model does NOT include transmission to the people present, when they are in locations other than the one analyzed here
The model can easily be adapted to other situations, such as offices, shops etc.

 

 

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